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...been abandoned. The biggest man-made threat to the endangered monk seal of Hawaii is entanglement in derelict fishing gear, according to Keith Criddle, a marine-policy professor at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. Off North Carolina's coast, ghost crab pots continue to trap and kill diamondback terrapin turtles. In a 2004 report titled An Ocean Blueprint for the 21st Century, the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy found that at least 267 different species were affected by derelict fishing gear, including 86% of all species of sea turtles. "Fishing gear is intended to catch things...
...During the Great Depression, Americans living near the country's wetlands harvested high-protein turtle meat, sometimes so aggressively that it threatened local species. In the early 1930s thousands of pounds of terrapin were harvested in Maryland, but by 1937 the yield had fallen to just 537 pounds, according to Peter Paul van Dijk, director of the tortoise and freshwater turtle biodiversity program at Virginia-based Conservation International (CI). Turtle meat is still eaten in parts of rural America and there is a growing domestic market in urban Asian-American communities. The meat also has found its way onto high...
...Terrapin senior guard Shay Doron will bring an interesting side story to the Sunday’s game, as her college choice as a high school senior boiled down to Maryland against Harvard. Four years later, Doron has scored over 2,000 points for the Terrapins—good enough for a school record...
...NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament last night. Harvard will play defending national champion Maryland, who was named the No. 2 team in arguably the strongest of the four divisions of the 64-team tournament. The first-round game between the Crimson and the Terrapins will take place Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Hartford Civic Center in Hartford, Conn. The team’s placement as a No. 15 seed was a surprise to everyone at Donoghue’s Sports Bar and Restaurant in Watertown, where Harvard players and coaches assembled to watch the Selection...
...shot with eight seconds left was high.“We got a good look, but the ball missed the cage,” Harvard coach Erik Farrar said. “That’s water polo.”In a low scoring game, the Terrapins appeared poised to take a 2-1 lead into the final frame, but the Crimson scored twice in the final ten seconds of the third quarter to grab a one-goal lead.Sophomore Lauren Snyder scored her second goal of the game on an outside shot with ten seconds to go.On the ensuing...